In Helpless, Willow said, “I went to Snoopy On Ice when I was little. My dad took me backstage and I got so scared I threw up on Woodstock.” Woodstock is the tiny yellow bird in Charles Shultz’s Peanuts cartoon strip.

The movie The Wizard of Oz, made in 1939, in mentioned several times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Buffy refers to the hyena-possessed bullies in The Pack as the “winged monkeys”. The phrase comes from the scene in The Wizard of Oz in which the Wicked Witch of the West sends …

In I Robot - You Jane, Xander refers to the Beatles song “With a Little Help from My Friends” when Buffy says that Dave’s death looked like suicide. The song is from the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Band.
In Out of Mind, Out of Sight, most of …

In Something Blue, a mislaid spell by Willow magics Buffy and Spike into getting engaged. After the spell had been reversed, Spike revealed to Buffy’s friends that the Slayer wanted ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ played for their first dance. The overly sentimental song was sung by Bette Midler on the …

Sunnydale had a bar called Willy’s Place which catered for the vampire and demon population. It was first seen in What’s My Line? (Part 1) when Angel went there to question the bartender, Willy the Snitch. The bar was also seen in Amends, The Zeppo, Goodbye, Iowa and Family. In …

The 1969 film The Wild Bunch by Sam Peckinpah is one of Joss Whedon’s favourites. It is mentioned twice in Buffy. In The Harvest, Buffy advised her friends, “Don’t go wild bunch on me” before they entered the Bronze. In Bargaining (Part 2), Xander called the demons who raided Sunnydale …

The White Hats are the good guys in the episode The Wish. They consist of Giles, Oz, Larry and Nancy. The name comes from classic Westerns in which the ‘good guys’ always wore a white hat.

The title of the episode Where the Wild Things Are comes from the 1963 children’s book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. It’s about a boy called Max who is sent to his room without supper and imagines that his room turns into a magical forest inhabited by …

The title of the two-part episode What’s My Line? comes from an American game show which ran from 1950 to 1963. Contestants had to guess the unusual jobs or products associated with mystery guests from clues provided by host John Charles Daly. In the UK version, the mystery guests just …

The scenes of Willow and Giles in England in season seven were filmed on location at Anthony Stewart Head’s house in England. The place is named as Westbury in the show, but Anthony actually lives near Bath in Somerset. Westbury is in Wiltshire and is famous for a massive horse …

In Lover’s Walk, Buffy and Cordelia come across Willow’s abandoned spell in the science lab. Buffy says, “What is all this stuff? I’m thinking weird science.” Weird Science was a movie made in 1985 about two nerdy boys who created their perfect woman. There was a TV spin-off of the …

In Hush, Spike tells Giles he needs to buy more Weetabix. When Giles says he thought vampires ate only blood, Spike replies, “Well sometimes I like to crumble up the Weetabix in the blood - give it a little texture.” Weetabix is a wheat-based British breakfast cereal, best served hot …

The ‘real’ Natalie French in the episode Teacher’s Pet lived at the address was 837 Weatherley Drive.

Willow discovered in Innocence that Xander would rather kiss Cordelia than her. She reminded Xander that he was treasurer of their ‘We Hate Cordelia Club’ in past years.

The American network which aired Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first five seasons.